This is an interview One More Thing did with sound designer and composer Jim Reekes, who reveals the stories behind the sounds of the Apple Macintosh. He talks about the creation of the Mac startup sound, his work on Quicktime and other audio features we take for granted on the Mac. It’s a fairly long… Read More Secrets Of Mac Sounds

The Game of Life Sequencer Bank is based on a game of life sequencer screencast produced by Wesen in 2008. It is a bank of 6 step or drum sequencers that generate patterns based on the basics of Conway’s Game of Life cellular automaton. Each sequencer operates independently of the others, and can be configured… Read More Game Of Life Music Sequencer

Cut-up text is an aleatory literary technique in which a text is cut up at random and rearranged to create a new text. It was used notably by William S. Burroughs in the late 60’s and early 70’s, and influenced the work of David Bowie, Curt Cobain and others. More recently, cut-up text has been… Read More Cutup Generator Creates Aleatory Text

Fractal Music Lab provides examples and explanations of fractal music, music composed using the same types of iterative or recursive processes that are used to create fractal images. It includes discussions of algorithmic composition, random music, Voss music, chaotic attractor music, Mandelbrot music and more. Each section provides a short explanation of the idea behind… Read More Fractal Music Lab